Curious how do you browse the internet without scripts? I've heard people doing this for over a decade and even then it would render most of the internet unusable.
I once had the misfortune while travelling abroad for almost a year to have a monthly data quota of a mere 2 gigabytes. Calculate that out. It's only a miserable 60 megabytes a day.
When some web pages can be 2 or 3 megabytes EACH! due to all the crap (advertisements, mainly), it's easy to see that your whole internet bandwidth capabilities are horribly restricted. And more to the point, you're paying for those companies to restrict your overall usage.
I have always used an adblocker. I have most times also used a site-blocker. I have no apologies for doing so.
This what mostly got me into adblocking in the first place when Time-Warner started talking about data caps. I started with using a pac file, host file, and then mixed in a local proxy server. Aggressive DNS caching. I was hitting upwords of 60-70% cache hit ratio on the squid proxy server. In addition to the local cache from the browsers. My testing was a set of pages with cold cache took about 2-3 mins to load. After turning everything on it was in the 50-70 second range cold and 20-30 seconds warmed up. I was sold. Faster loading times, less ads, and possible future benefit of data caps coming into play.
These days it is mostly just ublock origin, and noscript. That is because everyone went aggressively towards https, less than 10% hit rate these days on squid. I could MITM the thing. But have not done it yet.
This is where hosts blocking comes in handy with portable devices. It's a shame this requires root access, mostly because banks and other apps like it's a sin to have admin access on your personal device.
I actually used to have AdBlock Plus even though it’s inferior to uBlock origin. I honestly don’t care if all ads are blocked, and i still don’t care. But the issue was I started getting sites spammed with ads covering content even on AdBlock, as well as many sites adding an overlay which required me to explicitly disable ABP for the site (and ABP would keep forgetting my settings so i had to keep disabling it for the same sites).
I only care about blocking adverts that ruin the browser experience.
Is there any adblocker that allows a user to select rules to allow/deny based on parameters such as load time, CPU usage and bandwidth ?
We should punish the world being built upon ads. We need to be aggressors and go on the offense rather than passively blocking them
The drive for increasingly fine tuned ads is what destroyed our privacy at the corporate level. Then this data became ripe for the taking by government.
Ad networks are used to spread malware, suck of bandwidth the advertiser externalizes to you.
If you want people to pay for content - make content worth paying for.
And if we can't have social media bc the cost would be too much to bare without ad revenue? I consider this a problem solving itself. Adios.
As wev developers, we should still use the web without ad blockers sometimes (and on shitty phones and shitty monitors). That's how our users browse the web. When you see how terrible other websites are, you might be tempted to do something different, as a competitive advantage.
Firefox + uBlock Origin. Or any other browser with built-in ad blocking like Brave or Vivaldi, probably the best solution for non-techie friends or relatives.
I has used Chrome and AdGuard on Android that works as a VPN service and MITM TLS. It works but sometimes false positives happens and removing them is a bit annoying. Now I use Samsung browser and Content Blocker, because I found that Samsung browser is better UI than Chrome, and it supports content blocker as a bonus..
I just switched from Chrome to Brave. The HN hivemind tends to jump all over Brave with criticisms of their "attention token" monetization scheme, but this criticism has never made any sense to me. I just....don't use BAT, and never think about it at all.
I use DNS66 and have done for a few years. Works really well with Chrome on Android. If you frequently use a VPN it means you need to remember to switch it back on.
[+] [-] snarkerson|4 years ago|reply
This is my hardware and I am going to control it.
[+] [-] Beaver117|4 years ago|reply
[+] [-] simonblack|4 years ago|reply
When some web pages can be 2 or 3 megabytes EACH! due to all the crap (advertisements, mainly), it's easy to see that your whole internet bandwidth capabilities are horribly restricted. And more to the point, you're paying for those companies to restrict your overall usage.
I have always used an adblocker. I have most times also used a site-blocker. I have no apologies for doing so.
My machine, my money, my choices.
[+] [-] sumtechguy|4 years ago|reply
These days it is mostly just ublock origin, and noscript. That is because everyone went aggressively towards https, less than 10% hit rate these days on squid. I could MITM the thing. But have not done it yet.
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[+] [-] nicbou|4 years ago|reply
In any case, Google Maps uses half of that data. Spotify uses a lot too. If I use OsmAnd for maps, I'm fine.
Most of my internet usage is casual browsing. When I'm offline I just read books and offline articles.
[+] [-] armchairhacker|4 years ago|reply
I actually used to have AdBlock Plus even though it’s inferior to uBlock origin. I honestly don’t care if all ads are blocked, and i still don’t care. But the issue was I started getting sites spammed with ads covering content even on AdBlock, as well as many sites adding an overlay which required me to explicitly disable ABP for the site (and ABP would keep forgetting my settings so i had to keep disabling it for the same sites).
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[+] [-] belter|4 years ago|reply
This must be the understatement of the century...
[+] [-] loudtieblahblah|4 years ago|reply
We should punish the world being built upon ads. We need to be aggressors and go on the offense rather than passively blocking them
The drive for increasingly fine tuned ads is what destroyed our privacy at the corporate level. Then this data became ripe for the taking by government.
Ad networks are used to spread malware, suck of bandwidth the advertiser externalizes to you.
If you want people to pay for content - make content worth paying for.
And if we can't have social media bc the cost would be too much to bare without ad revenue? I consider this a problem solving itself. Adios.
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[+] [-] zabzonk|4 years ago|reply
Perhaps some hypocrisy here?
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[+] [-] b0tch7|4 years ago|reply
Fwiw I'm on Android and use Chrome but curious for what people do
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[+] [-] NicoJuicy|4 years ago|reply
I used Nextdns in the past.
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